Qual è il territorio dei prodotti tipici? Riflessioni critiche sulla patrimonializzazione del cibo

The process of qualifying a product as typical is an interesting field of negotiation and conflict around the characteristics and values of a society, a culture and a territory. In this particular process of heritage-making – food and territory are reinvented in the light of endogenous and exogenous factors such as the market, the legislative and political framework, the transcalar flows of raw and processed materials, and the evol- ution of cultural and consumption trends. This contribution proposes some theoretical in- sights for a typical geography of typical products, highlighting in particular the triple bound- ary traced during the process of typicalisation: territorial, ontological, social